Wednesday, November 23, 2005
The Joy of a new student rotation
Well this was my first call with the new 3rd year students who started their clerkship this week. One of the students scrubbed in and got to help with deridement of necrotic tissue from a man who had been in an ATV accident and was pinned under the machine while the wheels kept spinning. JTE.
Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Article about Joyce collection in Buffalo
Buffalo has key role in film about James Joyce
Annie Deck-Miller
Business First
How many people know that Buffalo is home to the world's largest collection of manuscripts and personal effects by perhaps the most influential author ever?
Not nearly enough, believes Buffalo lawyer Patrick Martin.
That conviction underlies Martin's role as co-producer and co-director of the documentary film "Following James Joyce ... Dublin to Buffalo."
In the Buffalo area, says Martin, a partner in Kennedy Stoeckl & Martin PC, "We have a lot of very major assets that, in terms of the cultural life of the city, we've inherited from a very active, savvy group of forbears (and) that have just spent a few decades in the attic, essentially."
The film brings some of those treasures out of the the Poetry Collection at the University at Buffalo's Undergraduate Library, exposing them to a global audience.
The film traces the Irish-born author's travels from Dublin to Paris and to Pola, Croatia; Trieste, Italy; and Zurich, Switzerland -- all cities where he made his home at some point. It charts also the fate of two collections of Joyce's manuscripts, notebooks, private library, correspondence and family portraits -- one rescued from wartime Paris, a second procured from Joyce's friend and publisher, Sylvia Beach -- as they made their way to an unlikely final destination: Buffalo.
The back story
Martin's involvement in the documentary is rooted in his earlier efforts to publish and promote the Mark Twain novelette "A Murder, a Mystery and a Marriage."
A group of European Joyce enthusiasts who were aware of Martin's work on the Twain project asked for his input on ways to commemorate the June 16, 2004, centenary of Bloomsday, the fictional date on which the events of Joyce's masterpiece novel "Ulysses" take place.
"The first thing I thought was, 'OK, well, Buffalo should be part of this,' " Martin says.
He contacted Joyce scholars Stacey Herbert and Luca Crispi, a couple who'd moved from Buffalo to Dublin in 2003 to help create a "Ulysses" exhibit for the National Library of Ireland.
The three of them quickly conceived ways to appeal simultaneously to hard-core Joyce scholars and casual readers, and compiled a list of possible contributors to the project. Largely in order to avoid copyright concerns, they opted for a documentary film format over a printed work.
"Nobody had to tell us that you want to present this thing in a way that is focusing on James Joyce and the integrity of the story, not on Buffalo," he notes.
The next step was to secure funding for the project. Martin first approached Catherine Schweitzer, executive director of The Baird Foundation, who agreed to support the film financially.
With added contributions from the Constance Stafford Charitable Trust, Cameron Baird Foundation, Zemsky Family Foundation, James Joyce Foundation, the Brioni Co. in Italy and the government of Croatia, the filmmakers had a $90,000 budget.
Getting it together
From conception to completion, the 55-minute film was created in less than a year. Filming began in Europe in February and wrapped up in Dublin and Buffalo in March, with cinematographer Marc Degenaar behind the camera.
Herbert and Martin wrote the film's script with input from Crispi and from Buffalo State College English professor Laurence Shine, who provides the documentary's narration.
The team edited the film from three continents, using the Internet as common ground. Martin would begin work at 4:30 a.m. EST, where it was 9:30 a.m. in both Dublin and Capetown, South Africa, where Degenaar is based.
"Following James Joyce" presents commentary from more than 20 people, most of them Joyce scholars and historians. The Buffalo segments of the film include footage of Frank Lloyd Wright's Darwin Martin House and Graycliff Estate, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and Kleinhans Music Hall and an interview with UB President John Simpson in the room where the Joyce materials are on display.
The film premiered in Buffalo and Dublin in June, coinciding with the Bloomsday centenary, and has since traveled to Trieste. It will be shown in Croatia and Paris in August, and it's a centerpiece of exhibitions by both the Trieste Joyce School and the National Library of Ireland in Dublin.
"The film has been really well-received in Europe. It's gotten more attention in Europe than it's gotten here," says Martin, who estimates that more than 75,000 people will see the film in Dublin alone this summer.
"There's an enormous amount of interest in Europe about our Joyce archive," Martin says. "So all you have to do is provide the means for somebody to recognize these things in an enjoyable way and then the means to make use of it."
There's a chance that that opportunity will come in the not-too-distant future. UB has contacted the International James Joyce Foundation in hopes of attracting the North American James Joyce Conference here in 2007, says Poetry Collection curator Michael Basinski.
If that happens, it will be an opportunity to "rebrand" Buffalo as a locus with considerable cultural allure, says Susan Scholterer, director of cultural tourism for the Buffalo Niagara Convention & Visitors Bureau.
"It's another activity that positions the Western New York region as very rich in culture and history," Scholterer says. While the convention might not draw a significant number of people here -- perhaps 200 scholars -- she believes it might change widely held misconceptions about Western New York.
Annie Deck-Miller
Business First
How many people know that Buffalo is home to the world's largest collection of manuscripts and personal effects by perhaps the most influential author ever?
Not nearly enough, believes Buffalo lawyer Patrick Martin.
That conviction underlies Martin's role as co-producer and co-director of the documentary film "Following James Joyce ... Dublin to Buffalo."
In the Buffalo area, says Martin, a partner in Kennedy Stoeckl & Martin PC, "We have a lot of very major assets that, in terms of the cultural life of the city, we've inherited from a very active, savvy group of forbears (and) that have just spent a few decades in the attic, essentially."
The film brings some of those treasures out of the the Poetry Collection at the University at Buffalo's Undergraduate Library, exposing them to a global audience.
The film traces the Irish-born author's travels from Dublin to Paris and to Pola, Croatia; Trieste, Italy; and Zurich, Switzerland -- all cities where he made his home at some point. It charts also the fate of two collections of Joyce's manuscripts, notebooks, private library, correspondence and family portraits -- one rescued from wartime Paris, a second procured from Joyce's friend and publisher, Sylvia Beach -- as they made their way to an unlikely final destination: Buffalo.
The back story
Martin's involvement in the documentary is rooted in his earlier efforts to publish and promote the Mark Twain novelette "A Murder, a Mystery and a Marriage."
A group of European Joyce enthusiasts who were aware of Martin's work on the Twain project asked for his input on ways to commemorate the June 16, 2004, centenary of Bloomsday, the fictional date on which the events of Joyce's masterpiece novel "Ulysses" take place.
"The first thing I thought was, 'OK, well, Buffalo should be part of this,' " Martin says.
He contacted Joyce scholars Stacey Herbert and Luca Crispi, a couple who'd moved from Buffalo to Dublin in 2003 to help create a "Ulysses" exhibit for the National Library of Ireland.
The three of them quickly conceived ways to appeal simultaneously to hard-core Joyce scholars and casual readers, and compiled a list of possible contributors to the project. Largely in order to avoid copyright concerns, they opted for a documentary film format over a printed work.
"Nobody had to tell us that you want to present this thing in a way that is focusing on James Joyce and the integrity of the story, not on Buffalo," he notes.
The next step was to secure funding for the project. Martin first approached Catherine Schweitzer, executive director of The Baird Foundation, who agreed to support the film financially.
With added contributions from the Constance Stafford Charitable Trust, Cameron Baird Foundation, Zemsky Family Foundation, James Joyce Foundation, the Brioni Co. in Italy and the government of Croatia, the filmmakers had a $90,000 budget.
Getting it together
From conception to completion, the 55-minute film was created in less than a year. Filming began in Europe in February and wrapped up in Dublin and Buffalo in March, with cinematographer Marc Degenaar behind the camera.
Herbert and Martin wrote the film's script with input from Crispi and from Buffalo State College English professor Laurence Shine, who provides the documentary's narration.
The team edited the film from three continents, using the Internet as common ground. Martin would begin work at 4:30 a.m. EST, where it was 9:30 a.m. in both Dublin and Capetown, South Africa, where Degenaar is based.
"Following James Joyce" presents commentary from more than 20 people, most of them Joyce scholars and historians. The Buffalo segments of the film include footage of Frank Lloyd Wright's Darwin Martin House and Graycliff Estate, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and Kleinhans Music Hall and an interview with UB President John Simpson in the room where the Joyce materials are on display.
The film premiered in Buffalo and Dublin in June, coinciding with the Bloomsday centenary, and has since traveled to Trieste. It will be shown in Croatia and Paris in August, and it's a centerpiece of exhibitions by both the Trieste Joyce School and the National Library of Ireland in Dublin.
"The film has been really well-received in Europe. It's gotten more attention in Europe than it's gotten here," says Martin, who estimates that more than 75,000 people will see the film in Dublin alone this summer.
"There's an enormous amount of interest in Europe about our Joyce archive," Martin says. "So all you have to do is provide the means for somebody to recognize these things in an enjoyable way and then the means to make use of it."
There's a chance that that opportunity will come in the not-too-distant future. UB has contacted the International James Joyce Foundation in hopes of attracting the North American James Joyce Conference here in 2007, says Poetry Collection curator Michael Basinski.
If that happens, it will be an opportunity to "rebrand" Buffalo as a locus with considerable cultural allure, says Susan Scholterer, director of cultural tourism for the Buffalo Niagara Convention & Visitors Bureau.
"It's another activity that positions the Western New York region as very rich in culture and history," Scholterer says. While the convention might not draw a significant number of people here -- perhaps 200 scholars -- she believes it might change widely held misconceptions about Western New York.
Monday, November 21, 2005
News and Wishes
Sometimes when the news is not so good we are filled with wishes of things we would like to do. This past week I received a couple of news items that generated some wishes.
First, a dear friend informed me that her husband has prostate cancer. He is getting good treatment. I wished I could tell her everything would be fine, but I know it is highly variable as to outcome.
Second, one of the 4th tear student got a rejection letter from one of the programs to which she is applying. Certainly, no one can predict the outcome of the residency match. JTE.
First, a dear friend informed me that her husband has prostate cancer. He is getting good treatment. I wished I could tell her everything would be fine, but I know it is highly variable as to outcome.
Second, one of the 4th tear student got a rejection letter from one of the programs to which she is applying. Certainly, no one can predict the outcome of the residency match. JTE.
Thursday, November 17, 2005
Side - Effects
Physicians are careful to warn patients of side effects that medications may cause. One of the side effects of being a trauma surgeon is called court time. I just finished talking to an assistant district attorney about an upcoming trial regarding a patient I treated who had been shot. There is very little activity that is less predictable than jury trials. Even though you may only have to testify for 5 or 10 minutes, you still wind up having to block out days on the calendar just to be available. So I will be trying to reschedule things for the next several weeks. First rule = try to move everything up as much as possble. Till next time. JTE.
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
The Joy of Hernia Surgery
Well today was one of those great teaching days in the OR. I had two inguinal hernia repairs booked. The first turned out to be a very difficult and large direct hernia. I showed the resident I was teaching how to use the Prolene hernia system and described and demonstrated the myopectinate orifice concept. Next we moved on to another interesting case. The next one turned out to be a slider with a portion of the hernia sac incorporating the colon. Lots of good teaching for this one. One the second case also had a student present who really enjoyed the case and the demonstration of the anatomy. All my best. JTE
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